Designing #GunCrisis 2.0
The #GunCrisis team has been invited to participate this fall in the Philadelphia Social Innovations Lab, a program committed to promoting and nurturing innovation for social impact.
The #GunCrisis team has been invited to participate this fall in the Philadelphia Social Innovations Lab, a program committed to promoting and nurturing innovation for social impact.
Above: Players compete in Philadelphia CeaseFire’s “A Game of Peace Basketball Tournament” last year. Photograph for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Jim MacMillan.
The next Philadelphia CeaseFire “A Game of Peace” tournament is almost here:
Wednesday, October 8th, from 6-9 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Recreation Center, at 2101 Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia.
Criminologist David Kennedy keynoted the second morning of the Cost of Violence National Conference, organized by Mothers in Charge last week in Philadelphia. Kennedy is the architect of the “focused deterrence” program, attributed with an estimated 50 percent reduction in gun violence last year in South Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a report on the city’s Focused Deterrence initiative, now correlated with a 43 percent drop in South Philadelphia shootings this year, and with homicides reduced from 15 to 7
Philadelphia may be within reach of a “modern-day low” for homicides at the end of 2013, according to Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, which reported that 115 victims confirmed so far this year represent “the lowest midyear total in nearly half a century.” On Saturday, the New York Times reported a significant drop for the first half of…
For the past few weeks, South African photojournalist Nidaa Husain has been spending time with some of Philadelphia’s leading gun violence reduction groups, meeting survivors and those bereaved, and working together to share their stories in photographs. Husain, 24, of Johannesburg, is visiting on a fellowship from Temple University’s School of Media and Communication, and…
Last weekend, Philadelphia CeaseFire organized “A Game of Peace” at the MLK Recreation Center — and more community events are scheduled this weekend. Join a peace march beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow and stick around for the family fun day at the Myers Recreation Center at 5800 Chester Avenue. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and…